Image: Issey Miyake
Christopher Forte: { Japan — An Ascetic Aesthetic }
There is a notion of modesty and subtlety, a respect for ceremony and procedure, an approach to duty and honor – that is unique to Japan. To the western eye these values are construed as anything from hopelessly anachronistic to downright obsessive – yet they contribute to a reverence for aesthetics that is utterly unique and exquisitely complex. This distinctive approach to all that appeals to the senses has, over centuries, imbued the Japanese with a veritable omnibus of terms that define everything from the simplest idea of placement (shibui: austerity of taste – not concealing the true nature of an object – a vase is a vase, a toaster is a toaster…) to the most esoteric concepts of shaping space (aji: where the incongruity of the object speaks of the congruity of the whole – the idea of sleeves filled with nothing, of space filled only with color…)
nightsinneon:
Diagrams from Geometrical psychology, or, The science of representation: an abstract of the theories and diagrams of B. W. Betts (1887) by Louisa S. Cook, which details New Zealander Benjamin Bett’s remarkable attempts to mathematically model the evolution of human consciousness through geometric forms.
Rock Study 01: not rock, photoshop garbage
hypereal:
From this diagram you can see the connection between the basic platonic solids and the formation of the most primary types of germs and microbiological forms. I believe most of the items here are viruses, but their formation and shape that drives curiosity.
(via hypereal)
mini-mal-me:
Minor Third Series: Fine Structure of Matter, 7.2.08 July, 2008 12 in x 10 in Graphite on rag paper (via Mark A Reynolds » Minor Third Series: Fine Structure of Matter, 7.2.08)
endlessforms:
Brockhaus & Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (by Double—M (formerly DoubleM2))
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{ Timothy Nolan } has some simple, beautiful work. The aesthetic in these drawings reminds me of the { Penrose } project and his kite & dart tile set.
(via hol-on)
Voronoi Diagram.
“As has been written here before, Voronoi diagrams, as a geometric model are fascinating because they can be used to describe almost literally everything: from cell phone networks to radiolaria, at every scale: from quantum foam to cosmic foam. Even the regular lattices and solids, cubes, tetrahedra, and the ways in which they combine, can all be seen as special cases of three dimensional Voronoi. It’s hard not to get mystical about it, but it’s really just the contemporary equivalent of the endless ideal gridded space of modernism or the renaissance, just more exotic and malleable. Geometry is Culture.”
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“In mathematics, a Voronoi diagram is a special kind of decomposition of a metric space determined by distances to a specified discrete set of objects in the space, e.g., by a discrete set of points. It is named after Georgy Voronoi, also called a Voronoi tessellation, a Voronoi decomposition, or a Dirichlet tessellation (after Lejeune Dirichlet),
In the simplest case, we are given a set of points S in the plane, which are the Voronoi sites. Each site s has a Voronoi cell, also called a Dirichlet cell, V(s) consisting of all points closer to s than to any other site. The segments of the Voronoi diagram are all the points in the plane that are equidistant to the two nearest sites. The Voronoi nodes are the points equidistant to three (or more) sites.”
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